ABSTRACT
The new detention mechanisms, established by the amendments to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration, were complemented by two further arrangements, designed specifically for controlling crime within the asylum-seeking community. First, an executive directive allowing the use of immigration detention to confine and sanction asylum-seekers accused of conventional crimes. Second, a disciplinary hearing for sanctioning asylum-seekers who have demonstrated unlawful behavior during their residence at the open detention center. These mechanisms, which entail an extreme (and in some cases, unprecedented) intersection of criminal and immigration enforcement, demonstrate that crimmigration under international protection is by no means a diminished model of crimmigration, but might in fact become a form of ‘hyper-crimmigration’.
